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Cannot connect to the internet

I recently ran a virus check with both Adaware and Spybot, and upon completion started getting iexplore.exe & rundll32.exe application errors every time I try to connect to the internet. Whenever I try opening Internet Explorer (or Netscape, or AOL for that matter) I am unable to connect to the internet, and upon exiting I get the following error:

iexplore.exe - Application Error. The intruction at "0x77f7e22a" referenced memory at "0x0131365c". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate the program.

After clicking OK I get a similar error message for rundll32.exe. I have cleared all my temp files, ran Adaware & Spybot several times, ran cleanmgr, and nothing is working. Maybe I had a bad uninstall of a program?

There are quite a few things wrong with your machine in addition to your Internet connection.You are seriously behind on your Operating System updates and we need to tackle them before we can fix the remainder of the malware infections. I would like you to do the following so that we have the basic platform right before we proceed:

You are using an outdated version of hijackthis. Please download the newer version.Download HijackThis from: HijackThis Download Site

You are running HijackThis from your E:\ drive. I need to see it in a folder on your C:\ drive where I know the backups HijackThis makes may will not get accidentally deleted, so please put HijackThis into a permanent folder. Full instructions on how to do this can be found here:Detailed ExplanationBrief instructions to create a permanent folder are:

Click My Computer, then C:\

In the menu bar, File->New->Folder.

That will create a folder named New Folder, which you can rename to "HJT" or "HijackThis".

Now you have C:\HJT\ folder.

Put your unzipped HijackThis.exe there.

Run your new version of HijackThis, save the log file, transfer the log to your laptop and post here.